To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.
Charles Lamb
In Praise of Chimney Sweepers
Oxford in the Vacation
Modern Gallantry
John Ruskin
Of the Pathetic Fallacy
William Hazlitt
On Familiar Style
On Going a Journey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
R.L. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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